Children as ‘Risk': Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Children and Young People (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) - Hardcover

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McAlinden, Anne-Marie

 
9781107144842: Children as ‘Risk': Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Children and Young People (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1107144841 ISBN 13: 9781107144842
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

This book critically examines socio-political constructions of risk related to sexual offending behaviour by and among children and young people and charts the rise of harmful sexual or exploitative behaviour among peers, drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks and primary research. Discussion of these behaviours is exhibited against a backdrop of the premature cultural sexualisation of contemporary childhood, which challenges traditional conceptions of childhood, victimhood and gendered sexual identities more broadly. It examines the complexities of peer-based sexual behaviours in a range of settings, including within organisational contexts such as schools and care homes, within families and peer-based relationships, as well as online contexts including sexting and cyberbullying. It draws out the myriad legal, practical and policy challenges of negotiating the boundaries between normal/experimental, risky/problematic and harmful sexual behaviour, and in particular the demarcation between coercion and consent, both for professionals as well as children and young people themselves.

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About the Author

Anne-Marie McAlinden is a Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Queen's University Belfast. She is an internationally recognised expert on sexual offending against children and the author/editor of over fifty publications, including two previous sole-authored monographs, the first of which, The Shaming of Sexual Offenders (2007), was awarded the British Journal of Criminology Book Prize 2008. She has been Principal Investigator on a number of ESRC funded projects including a recently completed three-year study on 'Sex Offender Desistance'; and currently 'Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the Past', where one of the case studies is institutional child abuse.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107144841
ISBN 13 
9781107144842
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
372

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